Fair And Tender Ladies

	  		


nd Fret 



Intro: G  C  G  D  F-C-G 

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You write about a place so dear, in all its good and evil 
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A loving cup, an aching scar, you need no thread and needle 
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To sew your name into your clothes or hem a ragged line 
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All muscular and luminous, oh, heroine of mine 


C G 
Ladies  
    D G 
Oh, ladies 
   C G 
My ladies 
   D               C G 
My fair and tender ladies 
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My fair and tender ladies 



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You raised yourself from mud and spit and opened up your eyes 
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Stretching out your graceful limbs, from heart and soul on fire 
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From sidewalks and handlebars, summer sun and evening stars 
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And unincorporated streets, oh, heroine I long to meet 



C G 
Ladies  
    D G 
Oh, ladies 
   C G 
My ladies 
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My fair and tender ladies 
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My fair and tender ladies 
Em C     Em C     Am C     A  D G     C  G  D  G   C  G  D  F-C-G 
La-dies, la-dies, la-dies, la-a-dies 



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You set aside your trays and flowers, like a ball and chain 
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You understood a time and place upon which you proclaimed 
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Your skirt was not to hide behind, your womanhood, no alibi 
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You would not live so man could die, oh, white-gloved heroine of mine 


 
C G 
Ladies  
    D G 
Oh, ladies 
   C G 
My ladies 
   D               C G 
My fair and tender ladies 
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My fair and tender ladies 
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My fair and tender ladies 
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My fair and tender ladies 



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